US Congressmen are foolish to be trusting Israeli advice on UNWRA.
Islamists and Israel are both in the wrong, and they are both making
the very real plight of the Palestinians much worse.

Tax payers here and there should not be coerced into funding
religious preferences and religious fantasies- and religious war.
Nations and neighborhoods and NGOs should be nurturing golden rule
thinking and fair and just policies- for everyone's sake, not just
coreligionists. A fully secular two state solution shaping two
fully sovereign, fully secure, fully free nation states, one called
Israel and one called Palestine, to once and for all end the
Israel-Palestine conflict ASAP is in everyone's best interests.

Chris Gunness's twitter
profile sums up perfectly who he is, and why he is worth following:
"UNRWA Spokesman advocating passionately for Palestine refugees
to enjoy all their rights to the full, including the right to a
just and durable solution." I admire him immensely, but not
being very twitter savvy did not even know I could follow him on
twitter until I started to do a little research to write this letter
objecting to the very VERY slanted and misleading article "The
controversial UN agency that found rockets in its Gaza schools
"

Back to my main point: Following the shocking horrors of the Nazi
Holocaust, the United Nations gathered representatives with
different legal and cultural backgrounds from all regions of the
world to draft the carefully and thoughtfully crafted Universal
Declaration of Human Rights which sets out, for the first
time, fundamental human rights to be universally protected: "Whereas
recognition of the inherent dignity and of the equal and
inalienable rights of all members of the human family is the
foundation of freedom, justice and peace in the world" Preamble to the
Universal Declaration of Human Rights.

In 1945 a noble man named Folke
Bernadotte succeeded in rescuing 15,000 people from German
concentration camps- in 1948 Folke Bernadotte became the first
official mediator in the United Nation's history.

Folke Bernadotte pointed out that "it would be an offense against
the principles of justice if those innocent victims [Palestinians]
could not return to their home while immigrants flowed into
Palestine to take their place"

United Nations Mediator Folke Bernadotte was murdered on Friday 17
September 1948 by members of the armed Jewish Zionist group Lehi
(commonly known as the Stern Gang or Stern Group).

December 11, 1948 The United Nations General Assembly adopted resolution
194 (III), resolving that “refugees wishing to return to
their homes and live at peace with their neighbours should be
permitted to do so at the earliest practicable date...”

There would be no UNWRA today if Israel had respected the
Palestinian refugees right to return to live in peace. Time plus
Jews-preferred Israel's continuing persecution and forced
displacement of the native non-Jewish population of historic
Palestine has swelled the number of official Palestinian refugees,
as well as the number of those who are also in forced exile but not
registered as official refugees.

The real controversy is not that UNWRA exists, but that Israel
refuses to respect international law and the Palestinians basic
human rights.

Emanating from the conviction of the Arab countries that a
military solution to the conflict will not achieve peace or
provide security for the parties, the council:

1. Requests Israel to reconsider its policies and declare that
a just peace is its strategic option as well.

2. Further calls upon Israel to affirm:

I- Full Israeli withdrawal from all the territories occupied
since 1967, including the Syrian Golan Heights, to the June 4,
1967 lines as well as the remaining occupied Lebanese
territories in the south of Lebanon.

II- Achievement of a just solution to the Palestinian refugee
problem to be agreed upon in accordance with U.N. General
Assembly Resolution 194.

III- The acceptance of the establishment of a sovereign
independent Palestinian state on the Palestinian territories
occupied since June 4, 1967 in the West Bank and Gaza Strip,
with East Jerusalem as its capital.

3. Consequently, the Arab countries affirm the following:

I- Consider the Arab-Israeli conflict ended, and enter into a
peace agreement with Israel, and provide security for all the
states of the region.

II- Establish normal relations with Israel in the context of
this comprehensive peace.